WordPress Real Cookie Banner: GDPR (DSGVO) & ePrivacy Cookie Consent < 2.14.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.14.2
- Affected Plugin
- Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
- Affected Version
< 2.14.2- CVSS
- 6.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2022-0445
At a glance
CVE-2022-0445 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Real Cookie Banner WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.14.2. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.14.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2022, reported by Krzysztof Zając.
Vulnerability Overview
The WordPress Real Cookie Banner: GDPR (DSGVO) & ePrivacy Cookie Consent WordPress plugin before 2.14.2 does not have CSRF checks in place when resetting its settings, allowing attackers to make a logged in admin reset them via a CSRF attack.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site. A successful exploit has high impact on integrity.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in Real Cookie Banner < 2.14.2 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.
An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Real Cookie Banner the fix is 2.14.2: builds < 2.14.2 are affected, anything from 2.14.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.14.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Real Cookie Banner: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Real Cookie Banner 2.14.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Real Cookie Banner: GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Consent
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